The videos showed inmates using illegal drugs, drinking beer, gambling and brandishing a loaded gun. Another video showed filthy conditions in which the inmates were living and another video showed an inmate, who WDSU identified as Arthur Johnson, roaming Bourbon Street while he was supposed to be behind bars.

When asked if he would invoke his Fifth Amendment right, Gusman said he would not and that he would, in fact, testify in court.

Criminologist John Penny expects Gusman’s testimony to be consistent with his previous remarks on the jail’s status.

“He will say that the city has shirked its responsibility with furnishing them with the kinds of funding needed to run a top-flight prison system,” Penny said.

The city, which funds the jail, objects to the potential cost of the consent decree agreement. After the jaw-dropping videos were released on Tuesday, Mayor Mitch Landrieu is urging that the federal government appoint someone other than Gusman to run the lockup.

"It's clear the entire management at Orleans Parish Prison has just been terrible," Landrieu said.